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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (Webstart Client) should support OpenJDK

Currently IBM Tivoli Monitoring (SP12/13) Webstart Client only supports Java 1.8. It should support OpenJDK in future releases.To superseed Java 1.8 by OpenJDK is a strategic issue in our company. BR Andrea
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Private/secured fields. Role-based permissions to view hidden fields, modify protected fields

Private/public fields. Hide financial and personal secret data in fields/custom fields/comments. Role-based permissions to view hidden fields and modify protected fields
over 10 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Need Security in the TEPS to work in the same way that it does from the 3270 enhanced

Hello, We need to have commands (should be covered by takeaction security elements) that need to get executed under the ID of the person logged on (the resolved ID if using user mapping). However, we then need situations to be executed under the t...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted